{"id":24,"date":"2005-06-18T02:35:32","date_gmt":"2005-06-18T06:35:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/happypoet.com\/hlf\/wp\/?p=20"},"modified":"2005-06-18T02:35:32","modified_gmt":"2005-06-18T06:35:32","slug":"my-children-are-leaving-for-atlanta-in-a-couple-of-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/happypoet.com\/hlf\/2005\/06\/18\/my-children-are-leaving-for-atlanta-in-a-couple-of-hours\/","title":{"rendered":"My Children Are Leaving for Atlanta in a Couple of Hours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I write this, it is now 2:30 am.  They have to be at the airport at 4:30 am for a flight that leaves at 5:50.  As much as I need the sleep (I&#8217;ve been up since yestermorning), I&#8217;m staying up so I can meet them at the airport and see them off.<\/p>\n<p>The thing is this:<\/p>\n<p>I knew all along that they were going, but didn&#8217;t expect it to be this soon.  The last I spoke to thier mother about it, she said they hadn&#8217;t set on a date or booked a flight.  This was Tuesday. Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Friday I get a call as I&#8217;m getting ready to leave for school:  &#8220;The kids are leaving tomorrow&#8221;.  I was (and still am) a little stunned.  I thought they would be around a few more weeks and there were things I was planning on doing with them.<\/p>\n<p>And the way the situation went from &#8220;I don&#8217;t know when they&#8217;re going&#8221; (Tuesday) to &#8220;They&#8217;re leaving tomorrow&#8221; (Friday) makes me think that she had already planned this and just didn&#8217;t tell me.  There&#8217;s a lot of things I&#8217;m not told.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re supposed to be spending only a couple weeks there this summer but, again, I&#8217;m told that the date of return has not been decided upon yet.  I have a feeling that it&#8217;s possible that they may stay in GA and thier mother will wind up moving there later.  Not definite, but a distinct possibility.  Just my guess.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not opposed to the idea of my children living in GA and being raised by thier mother&#8217;s family.  I just wish they were&#8217;n leaving so suddenly.<\/p>\n<p>Fuck.<\/p>\n<p>Ron.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I write this, it is now 2:30 am. They have to be at the airport at 4:30 am for a flight that leaves at 5:50. As much as I need the sleep (I&#8217;ve been up since yestermorning), I&#8217;m staying up so I can meet them at the airport and see them off. The thing &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/happypoet.com\/hlf\/2005\/06\/18\/my-children-are-leaving-for-atlanta-in-a-couple-of-hours\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;My Children Are Leaving for Atlanta in a Couple of Hours&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/happypoet.com\/hlf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/happypoet.com\/hlf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/happypoet.com\/hlf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/happypoet.com\/hlf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/happypoet.com\/hlf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/happypoet.com\/hlf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/happypoet.com\/hlf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/happypoet.com\/hlf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/happypoet.com\/hlf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}